Dumping-wagon



(No Model.)

0. M. TITUS.

DUMPING WAGON.

No. 329,346. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

CHARLES M. TITUS, OF ITHAGA, NEW YORK.

DUMPlNG-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 329,346, dated October27, 1885.

Application filed April 13, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. TITUs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an ImprovedDumping-Vagon, whereof the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a four-wheeled wagon, and to a box made in twoparts, one resting mainly on the fore and the other on the rear wheels;and my invention consists in the adaptation of the dumping-divisionstoacommon wagon and to its reach, and to the means of retention in placeand of dumping the divisions of the box, as will be apparent as Idescribe my invention.

Figure 1 is a view from above, or a ground plan of my wagon. Fig. 2 is aside elevation, and Fig. 3 is a view of the fore box and its positionwhen dumped. Figs. 4 and 5 show an adjustment of divisions of the boxand of clamps differing somewhat from the other figures.

In the figures, a is the front division of the box, and c is the rearpart of the box, and b is the rear axle, to which the rear division ofthe box is hinged; and d is a second bolster, to which the anteriordivision is hinged, and is placed in rear of the usual front bolster,and is attached to it by connecting rods or pieces d. To support thissecond bolster in its place, I make the wagon reach 6 quite stout, andstrengthen it by the metallic truss e, as shown, beneath the reach. Itwill be noticed that a small section of the fifth-wheel f of the frontaxle is indicated as resting on this iron truss bracing in Figs. 2 and3, but as it would obscure the parts shown in Fig. 1, it is omitted inthat figure. A scondary iron bar segment of a fifthwheel is used, onwhich, as is common, the ends of the two bolsters d (1 rest, mymodification being so to form it that it shall reach my rear bolster, d.These iron fifth-wheel seg ments are omitted lest they obscure thedrawings. Just in rear of this second bolster will be noticed the stouthinges g, on which the front division of my wagon-box rests, and bywhich it is held. This division has a front end-board, h, but no rearend-board, since, when in use, the front end-board of the rear boxdivision h is all that is needed. The rear box-division c is hinged tothe bolster of (No model.)

the rear axle by the hinges g, and this boxdivision and its hinges actas in any twowheeled cart. Next is the provision I make for the use of areach in my wagon, and it will be noticed that ati is a hinged piece inthe bottom of the front box-division, directly over the reach. In Fig. 1it is closed down in its place, because the boxis shown in the positionto receive its load; but in Fig. 3 it is open, because the box is in theposition of being dumped, when this hinged part rests on the reach,which thus becomes the self acting means of opening it.

Atj, Fig. 1, there is shown a lever-clamp that fastens the two divisionsof the box together. Its shape is not very essential but its point iswedge or cam shaped, so that it closes the boxes together tightly orsnugly to each other. This is shown only on the upper side of Fig. 1;but a similar one is used on the lower side of that figure, if needful;or one can be placed to act by one lever on each side of the hingedpiece i, in which case it is fast to the middle of the rear box-divisionfront endboard, and its staples are in the bottom of the front divisionof the box. Itisimportant that the clamps be made strong, and to closethe two divisions of the box firmly together; also, it will be noticedthat a bolster-shaped crosspiece, m, is attached to and moves with therear division of the box, and which, when the rear box-division isreturned to the loading position, rests on the reach. The front axlebolster acts as a guide for the loading position of the frontbox-division; 'thus the box-divis ions are self-adjusting to each otheron the horizontal level, and for the clamps to act. The reach is made ofa stout top wood strip, n, extending from the usual king-bolt of thefront axle to and through, in the usual inanner, the usual place betweenthe rear bolster and axle; but I add to it a stout iron truss, n, whichbegins at or embracing the king-bolt, or close to it, and hasastud-block, n, under the additional bolster, near the front axle, andgoes backward to a stud-block, a under the bolster cross piece m, and tonear or through the aperture in the rear bolster and axle, where itends. By this means I make a wagon-reach fitted to the demands of thewagon I have described. It is advisable to ICO make the tie-bolt rodsthat hold the additional bolster d to the front bolster, d, of iron, butthey may be made of wood; and in the adaptation of a common wagon to myde-- vices the front bolster, d, is perforated for these bolt-rods, thatwhen the additional orv the fifth-wheel may be taken out and easily putin the place (shown in the figures) it has in my reach.

Thus by my devices shown and described I make a dumping-wagon box, withtwo divis ions or boxes, adapted tothe transport-ion and the readyunloading of various articles-such as manure, earth, sand, &c.and fonusein excavating, road repairing, and like uses. The bolster d is bolted toand through the reach and the stud-block n'. The box divisions a and emay be made to fit one within the other, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Thebox 0 in Fig; 4 is represented to be adjusted to have its sides andendboard h go afew inches into the rear end of the division at. Thisfolding of one division into the other makes a stouter 5 junction of theboxestogether, and also allows a better plan for the clamps of thedivisions. The plan is shown to be that staples are attached to thedivision 0, which pass, when the 7 boxes are put one in the other,through aperthe staples, and thus lock the divisions together. This rodis, by a spring, self-acting when it is desirable thus to make it.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a dumping-wagon, the second oradditional front bolster. attached to the front bolster, and to whichsecond bolster the front division or box is hinged, in combination withthe reaehn, as set forth.

2. The reach 6, made of the reach proper,

n. in combination with the trussbracing rod 11, and with the stud-blocksn n, and adaptu ed to sustain the additional bolster d and the bolstercross-bar m, as shown and described.

3. A second bolster, d, secured by the rods (1 d to the front bolster,and constituting with the front bolster' a fixed resting support for thedivision a of the wagon-box.

4. The crossbar m, secured. to the reach n, in coiinbination with therear axle, to which the reach it extends, the said cross bar and axleconstituting the supports of the rear division of the box, as set forth.

5. A two parted or divided wagon-box, each division dumping in aseparatecart-like manner, in combination with and adapted to a wagonwith a reach, as set forth.

6. A wagon with dumping division-boxes a and 0, suited toa wagon-reachby means of a hinged piece in the bottom'ofthe front division of thebox, whereby a pit for the reach is made, as shown and described.

'7. Alever, j, or cross-rod j, provided with hook-shaped or inclinedtightening surfaces, whereby when the lever or rod is in the closedposition for holding the boxes or divisions together these surfaces actas tightening-wedges,

thus making a firm locking together of the divisions.

CHARLES M. TITUS. WVitnesses:

S. J. PARKER, F. W. PHILLIPS.

